sudden

Definition

  • noun: an unexpected occurrence
  • adjective: happening or coming unexpectedly
  • adjective: happening, coming, or done very quickly in a way that is usually not expected
  • synonyms: emergency, unexpected, unusual

Examples

  • There were no instances of the disease here until it 'suddenly' appeared last year.

  • The director's 'sudden' departure leaves the organization's future uncertain.

  • I was walking down the street when, 'all of a sudden', it started raining.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) No, not by me, and not by the dying or the delirious. Have you ever been seen... like you were a man? In a diner once, a blind woman turned to me all of a sudden... and asked me to pass her the mustard. - But she was blind. - But she knew I was there. That doctor in the operating room... (..)
    1998 City of Angels